The majority of Indians are still riding the slow, shuttle train as far as the Internet is concerned. Average Internet connection speed is one of the lowest for a fast-growing, high-profile nation like India, if you go by the numbers for Q1, 2011 from a recent study by Akamai. The study shows that average Internet […]
Indians have been slow to climb on the bandwagon of the iPad or other tablets, presumably because of the price and the absence of WiFi in most homes in India. Not surprisingly, Indian developers have been slow to build applications for the iPad or for its successor, the iPad 2. But in the U.S., the […]
Finito! Our favorite brick and mortar book store chain, the troubled Borders Group is shutting down after failing to find any bidders. Over the years, we’ve lost track of the number of books we’ve purchased at Borders stores in NY, NJ, PA, CA, DE and MD. Not just for books, we headed to Borders for […]
Who says life is certain? Tragedy sometimes strikes with stunning, cruel swiftness. Here, watch the below video of an unfortunate incident that occurred today at the Patalpani Water Falls in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. (Via Vasanth’s FB account) Related Stores: Indore: Family on picnic swept away by wave
Man, it’s been a month since SI’s last installment of Incredible India, those only in India real-life stories. Here we go with another episode. * All these years, we deluded ourselves into believing that the way to get strong is to eat nutritious food and visit the gym regularly. Hell, what do we know! SI […]
If it were human, Indian software services provider Infosys would be feeling a sharp pain in its back-side today. For the New York Times has thoroughly buggered India’s software darling in a critical piece posted on its home page. The NYT story says that Infosys is: facing an expanding federal investigation prompted by claims from […]